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you have a certain habit, you will find situations immediately. It is not that anybody is forcing these situations on you. Just look -- we have three or four hundred sannyasins... someone goes into jail, and you are caught! You catch the situation. Give that missionary work to someone else.
I am not against service, but service is secondary. One should become centred first, otherwise it can be a distraction and can become anti-growth.
[A sannyasin says: I'm enjoying paradise!... We will probably have to go back to the States... but it is going to be joyous.]
Mm, you have to work for me there. Much work has to be done, because I am not coming. So a few people who understand me and love me should go and spread me. And keep me within you. There is only one way: spread me far and wide, mm?
Be Realistic: Plan for a Miracle
Chapter #12
Chapter title: None
27 March 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7603275
ShortTitle: PLAN12
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Geetanjali. It means an offering of the songs. You can offer God flowers, or you can offer your songs. So Geetanjali means offering God your songs.
It is the name of one of the most famous books in India. Have you heard the name of Rabindranath Tagore? He is the only nobel-prize-winning indian poet, and it was for this book 'Geetanjali' that he was given the nobel prize. Read the book... you will love it. It is one of the very rare books.
[A sannyasin says: I'm afraid to leave now... I will have to work there (in the West) and I have a big problem working a routine job. I'd like to be able to but I feel a resistance.]
That resistance can be very very destructive, because day to day life is going to be the same. There is not much that you can change -- and change is not going to help.
In fact if your day to day life is completely settled and a harmony is running, then you have much energy free to do something else. If you change everyday, ordinary things, your whole energy will be wasted there. For example today you learn typing and then tomorrow you stop it. Then you start learning driving, and then
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